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2006-10-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 great cartoon ;)
Just last week I went to a wedding and they served chocolate mint chip martini's.
Oh man were they good.
For love of Vodka....how horrible

Posted by Jan 2006-10-27 00:12|| 2006-10-27 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The college weekend party crowd(s) + Spring/Seasonal Breakers t'aint gonna like this news at all - OTOH, Halloween beer suppliers/brewers may had just gotten their seasonal marketing promos free of charge courtesy of the Russians.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-27 00:27|| 2006-10-27 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ---- "Toxic hepatitis" is kind of an odd term. Excessive consumption of regular ethanol without impurities can indeed poison the liver and kill directly. In this part of the world, the ailment could be called "alcoholic hepatitis" and perhaps "alcohol-induced liver failure." The reputation of Russians as extremely heavy drinkers indicates this is the more common adverse outcome hinted at in the story. Excess intake of the best, purest ethanol is toxic all by itself.
-----OTOH, adulteration of ethanol with substitutes like methanol (wood alcohol) or antifreeze (ethylene glycol) is also done by sub-standard distillers. Might as well just say the victims were poisoned.
--- My grandfather was a logger back in 1915, and one weekend his crew drank some suspicious hootch. Everyone vomited the stuff up, everyone but granddad, and they lived, although they were really sick for a while. Granddad didn't vomit, and died. His cause of death as recorded on the death certificate was "alcholic axcess [sic]". It was almost a fitting way for a logger to go.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-27 12:52|| 2006-10-27 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Millions in Russia killed by real vodka.

Posted by Grunter 2006-10-27 15:06|| 2006-10-27 15:06|| Front Page Top

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